Between states... no punitive war is thinkable because between them a relation of superior and inferior does not exist. Whence it follows that a war of extermination, where the process of annihilation would strike both parties at once and all right as well, would bring out perpetual peace only in the great graveyard of the human race. -from "Perpetual Peace" One of the most influential thinkers of the Western civilization, a man who profoundly shaped the mind-set of the modern world, examines war and human nature and concludes, bracingly, that global peace is inevitable. Far from an unattainable utopian fantasy, this 1795 essay lays out the requirements for peace, including republican governments, freedom of movement for citizens, and-prophetically-the formation of a league of nations. In this era of imperialistic ambitions and preemptive wars, Kant's insight is a profound reminder that peace is possible but must be actively pursued. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Kant's Analytic of the Beautiful and Perpetual Peace. German metaphysician IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) served as a librarian of the Royal Library, a prestigious government position, and as a professor at Königsberg University. His other works include Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764), Critique of Pure Reason (1781), and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785).

Kant: Perpetual Peace

Beck, Lewis White

History

Pearson

When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This landmark in Western philosophical literature remains an indispensable aid to a complete understanding of Kant's philosophy for students and scholars alike. This Critique is the only writing in which Kant weaves his thoughts on practical reason into a unified argument. Lewis White Beck offers a classic examination of this argument and expertly places it in the context of Kant's philosophy and of the moral philosophy of the eighteenth century.

A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Phoenix Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

In this exegesis, a leading Kantian scholar makes a full historical, literary and philosophical examination of the Critique of Practical Reason, considering it in relation to the total eighteenth-century background.

A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Midway Reprint Series)

Univ of Chicago Pr

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/G. Chipped dust jacket.

Essays on Kant and Hume

Yale Univ Pr

A collection of Lewis Beck's writings on the philosophy and interpretation of Immanuel Kant.

Studies in the Philosophy of Kant

Praeger

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Bookplate on ffep.

Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors

Belknap Press

This is a comprehensive history of German philosophy from its medieval beginnings to the late 18th century. In exploring the spirit of German intellectual life and its distinctiveness from that of other countries, the text devotes whole chapters to four of the great philosophers - Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Lessing and Kant - and extensively examines many others, including Albertus Magnus, Meister Eckhart, Paracelsus, Kepler, Mendelssohn, Wolff and Herder. Questioning explanations of philosophy by the racial or ethnic character of its exponents, Beck's conclusion is that German philosophy developed as a series of diverse responses to the historical experiences of the German people. The peculiarities of German philosophy should be viewed in the light of German political problems and educational structures. In particular Beck stresses the importance of the connections between philosophy and Germany's intellectual, literary, religious and political history.

Thoemmes Pr

Beck discusses the works on religion of the six philosophers he considers most germane to contemporary issues: Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, James, and Santayana. "I have tried to choose men whose independence of mind was such that they often appeared to their contemporaries to be enemies of religion." He first addresses the question, What is secular philosophy? And then explains the differences between the "families" of secular philosophers, before examining both their life and works.

Six Secular Philosophers

UNKNO

The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action

This comprehensive history of German philosophy from its medieval beginnings to near the end of the eighteenth century explores the spirit of German intellectual life and its distinctiveness from that of other countries. Beck devotes whole chapters to four great philosophers - Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz, Lessing, and Kant - and extensively examines many others, including Albertus Magnus, Meister Eckhart, Paracelsus, Kepler, Mendelssohn, Wolff, and Herder. Questioning explanations of philosophy by the racial or ethnic character of its exponents, Beck's conclusion is that German philosophy developed as a series of diverse responses to the historical experiences of the German people. The peculiarities of German philosophy must be viewed in the light of German political problems and educational structures. In particular he stresses the importance of the connections between philosophy and Germany's intellectual, literary, religious, and political history.

Early German Philosophy : Kant and His Predecessors

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Kant: Perpetual Peace

A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Phoenix Books)

A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Midway Reprint Series)

Essays on Kant and Hume

Studies in the Philosophy of Kant

Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors

Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors

Six Secular Philosophers

The Actor and the Spectator: Foundations of the Theory of Human Action

Early German Philosophy : Kant and His Predecessors